Saturday, July 25, 2009

Vacation '09

...is in the books. We spent last week in York Maine at my Mother and Father in law's condo (Thanks Mom and Dad!) with fair weather. We had a few long days at the beach and we even spent a day at good ole York's Wild Kingdom, boy did that bring back some memories!

Can't forget about the food! Best chowder I've ever had (next to Pop's) has to be from Lobster Cove in York, hands down the best.

Morgan is all about the corn on the cob.









Saying Morgan loves the beach is and understatement. He couldn't get enough and bounced back and forth from playing in the surf, to playing in the sand, no time to sit still.
























He was taken out by a few and went under, but always popped right back up with laughter.











These next few images take me back to the days when my family would vacation for a week in Hampton Beach. Watching Morgan play and laugh in the surf reminded me of my Pops when he and all my brothers and sisters would laugh so hard at someone being taken out by a wave, that we'd end up choking on sea water. Dad always laughed the loudest and hardest and it was contagious.

As Morgan, Christin and I played in the waves, I could faintly hear that familiar laughter from my childhood echoing as each wave broke. Wherever you are Pops, I hope the Sun is shining and waves are wicked huge.













I take that back, Morgan did sit still for one thing;



Being cool and eating Doritos.







York's Wild Kingdom is no San Diego Zoo or Animal Park, but we still enjoyed ourselves, it's all about the memories.













Morgan working his charm on the ladies, not sure where he gets that from.








He wasn't too keen on riding the kiddie rides all by himself and by the time we got the merry go round, he just kind of had this Ho-Hum look on his face...


















...but Momma always finds a way to make things all better.




















Final day at the beach was a cloudy cool one. Morgan didn't seem to care though, Christin read and we played in the waves for one last time.







Monday, July 13, 2009

Morgan's first big boy bed

A lot of "firsts" happening around here lately, but I guess that's what happens when you have kids.




It only seems like yesterday that he moved from the bassinet to the crib.












However, the time has come to move on and out of the crib. It's hard to believe he's already moving into a bed. We're proud, but a little worried...ok, a lot. I'm pretty sure he's already been plotting.





For the past few weeks, Grampa, Christin and Gramma have been building Morgan his first toddler bed. And Morgan too of course.










They did an outstanding job, Grampa is one heck of a wood craftsman!

(Smackamoly Cakes! a.k.a Woohoo!)









The first night Christin went up to check on him and found him asleep on the carpet in front of the bed with his head under the bed. Sorry no pics, but it was quite funny.












As long as this doesn't happen...
too often, I think we'll be ok.

We use to wake up to this...
but now we get this...
"These aren't the droids you're looking for...Dad."